Wear analysis of the lithic material from Sajóbábony Méhésztetö, Hungary

Borel, A; Mester, Zs; Lamotte, Agnes

Document type :

Autre communication scientifique (congrès sans actes - poster - séminaire...): Communication dans un congrès avec actes

Title :

Wear analysis of the lithic material from Sajóbábony Méhésztetö, Hungary

Author(s) :

Borel, A [Auteur]
Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique [HNHP]
Mester, Zs [Auteur]
Institute of Archaeology [Budapest]
Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique [HNHP]
Lamotte, Agnes [Auteur]

Histoire, Archéologie et Littérature des Mondes Anciens - UMR 8164 [HALMA]

Conference title :

The Carpathian Basin : integration, mobility and diversity

Conference organizers(s) :

EAA european archaeologist association

City :

Budapest

Country :

Hongrie

Start date of the conference :

2022-08-31

English keyword(s) :

wear analysis
quartz porphyry
palaeolithic
Hungary

English abstract : [en]

New excavations of the site of Sajóbábony Méhésztetö (Hungary, Bükk Mountains), the eponym site of the Bábonyian culture, have been carried out since 2019 in the frame of the French-Hungarian program of the French Ministry ...
Show more >New excavations of the site of Sajóbábony Méhésztetö (Hungary, Bükk Mountains), the eponym site of the Bábonyian culture, have been carried out since 2019 in the frame of the French-Hungarian program of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. The revaluation of the site, aiming at characterizing the subsistence behaviours of its occupants, implies a thorough understanding of the function(s) of the stone artefacts. We propose here to present an extensive wear analysis carried out on the collections provided by the 2019 and 2021 excavations. The lithic material of Hungarian Palaeolithic archaeological sites has been the subject of only very few wear analyses. Moreover, no reference collection was so far accessible for the raw materials specific to the region, quartz-porphyry and limnosilicite in particular. Therefore, we will first present the ongoing experimental program which will later allow more detailed, qualitative and quantitative, examination of the surfaces of the artefacts. Through the microscopic screening of the stone pieces, we already classified them in four categories depending on the presence and clarity of the use traces. This first level of observation provides an insight of the spatial distribution and stratigraphical repartition of the use and about the relationship between tool raw material and use. The current results show clear discrepancies in terms of use micropolish development depending on the raw material of the tool. This raises questions concerning the proper function of the artifacts (more intensive use of the tools made of limnosilicite?) but can also be the result of a different development of the traces on the different raw materials or even of the technologies used for the observations. This will be discussed taking into account the new experimental data. The experimental program is supported by the NRDI Fund (K 132857), Hungary.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

Histoire Archéologie Littératures des Mondes Anciens (HALMA) - UMR 8164

Source :

Harvested from HAL

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